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Topic: Kitchenaid Pro 600 woes (Read 2112 times)

I have now stripped the 4th (and consequently 5th) gears in my Kitchenaid mixer. I've had it 2008. Is this the same experience as others here have had?

Thankfully the gears are pretty easily replaced but my goodness you'd think I was mixing concrete. I was kneading a 780 gram batch of Lehmann New York pizza dough last night and two gears stripped simultaneously.

Mine is about the same age and I have replaced the gears twice. The last time I replaced far more than I thought needed to be done figuring if they stripped again I was replacing it. I went under the assumption that there could be damage that I couldn't see. I even replaced the shaft. Not sure if this was overkill but I knew that it wouldn't hurt anything. So far so good but it's only been 3 months

I have stripped a dozen kitchen aid pros in my classroom bakery. The school bought them so I used em. For heavy dough mixing-bagels especially- they stink. I found the bosh to be much more dependable but harder to clean up. I now use Berkel, and hobart mixers, since our bakery has gone commercial. They are workhorses. Walter

shuboyje,What I meant when I said I stripped the 4th and 5th gears is that I broke the internal gears, and these will be the 4th and 5th gear parts I've had to order. Sorry for the poor wording.

TXCraig1,While I'm not excited that the mixer has broken at this rate, it is nice to know that I'm not the only one having problems. I thought at first that I must be pushing the mixer to do something it wasn't designed to do, and got Kitchenaid to replace it once.